Correspondence continues to press on public attention the plight of distressed foreigners in Shanghai. As a preliminary to any concerted movement for relief an insistence should be given to the need for Tegistration. The British Chamber of Commerce maintains in its office at 17 The Bund an unemployment Yegister for its own nationals, British subjects out of work shoul be invited to register there. The Unemployment Centre at 422 North Soochow Road has a register on Which the names of any unemployed foreigners—men or women—can be placed. This action is not met by any offer of charity or inquiries un-Jess the appl It simply means that is ready if offered to. him or her. It is obvious that, unless some estimate can be framed of the numbers out of work, it is not possible to launch a general scheme of relief with any regard to practical considerations, In making these observations thi desires to Seriousness of the position. Indeed sympathy or is unaware of the
that sympathy and that knowledge impel it to urge registration as an essential preliminary to the public understanding of the extent of the
made by Mr, Hossenlopp and again need. The proposal, originally endorsed to-day, cannot possibly be put into effective force without some. such information. That proposal is eminently valuable and might well be taken into serious account by ce-ordinating central when such machinery has been created, At present the different ehavitable bodies would be possibly embarrassed were this journal, for example, to proceed with an appeal on those lines as an independent gesture of sympathy.
The North-China Herald" ventures to. ex-
Press the view that its chief funetion is to draw public attention to the urgency of the unemployment. problem and to provide a forum for the discussion of ways of relief. The actual work of assessing the problem and applying suitable ye~ medies were far better undertaken by definite ad hoe machinery either Dased on organisations already in existence or developed out of the special needs of the moment to work in conjunction with and supplement tary to those organisations.
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